Jeff Grubb was born on August 27,1957 and is an author of novels, short stories, and comics, as well as a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre.
20 Facts About Jeff Grubb
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Jeff Grubb's written works include The Finder's Stone Trilogy, the Spelljammer and Jakandor campaign settings, and contributions to Dragonlance and the computer game Guild Wars Nightfall.
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Jeff Grubb met Kate Novak in high school and married her in 1983.
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Jeff Grubb became a wargaming enthusiast during his high school years.
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Jeff Grubb started to play Avalon Hill wargames including PanzerBlitz and Blitzkrieg, and the SPI game, Frigate.
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Jeff Grubb ran his own campaign set in Toril, his own game universe.
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In 1984, Jeff Grubb was the principal architect of the Marvel Super Heroes game system.
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Jeff Grubb was a consultant on the first edition of Unearthed Arcana, and authored the first edition of the Manual of the Planes.
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Jeff Grubb contacted Ed Greenwood, author of numerous articles in Dragon about his home campaign setting, and soon Greenwood began sending Jeff Grubb packages full of maps of his world and background information for the setting; this collaboration resulted in the publication of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting beginning with the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.
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Jeff Grubb is the designer of the Spelljammer campaign setting, and the Al-Qadim setting.
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Jeff Grubb felt that Al-Qadim was well received because the designers were able to hide the potential of the setting from the executives at TSR.
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Jeff Grubb started the Buck Rogers line for TSR with a board game published in 1988.
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Jeff Grubb continued to work on role-playing games with TSR for many years, long enough to be regarded affectionately as an "old timer" by Scott Haring.
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Jeff Grubb has been involved with Sovereign Press, founded by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin in 2001.
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Jeff Grubb wrote the 45th issue of Superman Adventures, "Mateless in Metropolis".
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Jeff Grubb is the author of over a dozen novels and 30 short stories.
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ArenaNet hired Jeff Grubb to write the story for the third installment of their Guild Wars franchise, Guild Wars Nightfall.
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Jeff Grubb was involved in designing the Guild Wars: Eye of the North expansion pack.
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Jeff Grubb has done world-building and writing for Blue Byte.
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Jeff Grubb is working as a writer and game designer for Guild Wars 2.